“Sea fighting is pure common sense.  The first of all its necessities is SPEED, so as to be able to fight--When you like, Where you like, and How you like.”

Letter to Churchill, dated 16/1/1912, quoted in The World Crisis, Vol 1, 1911-14 (1923), Churchill, Thornton Butterworth (London), p. 140.

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